Gregory L. Charvat is author of Small and Short-Range Radar Systems, Co-Founder of Butterfly Network Inc, and advisor to the Camera Culture Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Media Lab.
Charvat is also well known in the hacker and maker community for developing radar devices and imaging systems in his garage.
He built amateur radio equipment in high school, a radio telescope for which he won second place at the 1997 International Science and Engineering Fair in Louisville, KY, and developed many radar sensors in college.
He earned PhD (2007),[3][6] MSc (2003), and BSc (2002) degrees in electrical engineering from Michigan State University.
[3][7] Charvat has authored or co-authored numerous journals, proceedings, magazine articles, and seminars on topics including applied electromagnetics, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and phased array radar systems, radio frequency (RF) and analog design.
[1] For fun he develops vacuum tube audio equipment and restores antique radios and watches, among hobbies.
[7][8] Recently, Gregory Charvat provided explanations of advanced sensing technologies that the general public could understand during a series of interviews on the missing Malaysian Flight 370.
Gregory Charvat is also a contributing author to Hack-a-Day blog, writing on the subject of using small radar technology for your next project http://hackaday.com/2014/02/24/guest-post-try-radar-for-your-next-project/ and how Synthetic Aperture Radar imaging works: http://hackaday.com/2014/03/17/radar-imaging-in-your-garage-synthetic-aperture-radar/ Gregory L. Charvat is a visiting research scientist at MIT Media Lab.
Author Albert Sabban published the most recent part in the series, "Low-Visibility Antennas for Communication Systems," on September 18, 2015.
"Time-of-Flight Microwave Camera" Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 14709 (2015).
E. Ackerman, “MIT’s 3-D Microwave Camera Can See Through Walls.” IEEE Spectrum, October 2015.
D. Muoio, “This camera can see through walls and could help driverless cars navigate fog.” Tech Insider, October 15, 2015.